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Manuscript, Guangzhou, 1543, Chinese Muḥaqqaq
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APA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, ., & Johanna Cozzolino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Guangzhou, 1543, Chinese Muḥaqqaq (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3939
Chicago
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. n.d. “Manuscript, Guangzhou, 1543, Chinese Muḥaqqaq.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3939
MLA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. Manuscript, Guangzhou, 1543, Chinese Muḥaqqaq, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3939
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_AVN_JC_05
- Date
- Shawal 950 H.
- 1543
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- China, Guangdong province, Guangzhou
- Present Location
- Private collection
- Website Link
- https://www.roseberys.co.uk/a0468-lot-493411?display=grid&el=493411&header_id=0&keyword=qur%27an&lo=ASC&pn=1&pp=96
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Chinese Muḥaqqaq
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Hajji Hasan bin ‘Abdillah al-Sini
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 24.5 x 18 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 5 lines
- Technique
- written
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - thin shaft
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- mīm descenders
- convex downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- Short bowl on baseline
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
horizontals
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft / sometimes with serif
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin